WASHINGTON - Re-emphasizing the broad reach of the Federal Arbitration Act, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that a debt-restruc...

SACRAMENTO - A proposed method of implementing the U.S. Supreme Court's ban on executing the mentally retarded was approved b...

SACRAMENTO - The state Senate passed a bill Monday to protect the elderly from financial abuse by requiring more complete dis...

SAN DIEGO - Memorial services for Bruce R. Marshall, who became a lawyer after years as a spokesman for Southern California Ga...

LOS ANGELES - With his former firm effectively winding down its California operations, Bruce Canter, managing partner of the N...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two brothers in a Texas blues-rock band are not wronged celebrities just because a comic book series loosely ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The former head librarian for the California Supreme Court did not have a serious health condition, a San Fra...

Column By Garry Abrams - Forget Osama bin Laden and the threat that he and the rest of his al-Qaida terrorist network represen...

SAN FRANCISCO - When 67-year-old Jose Cervantes bid on and won a car auctioned by the U.S. government in San Diego in July 19...

SACRAMENTO - A suit filed by Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office against the beleaguered Trevor Law Group for allegedly ab...

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles deputy district attorney pleaded not guilty Friday to identity theft, forgery and other fel...

SAN FRANCISCO - What began as a $25,000 dispute in bankruptcy court over a company called Robot Wars has grown into a $1 milli...

SAN FRANCISCO - In his budget proposal for the coming year, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown suggests reductions of $2.2 mill...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not every day that dark-suited lawyers share the gallery at San Francisco's 1st District Court of Appeal...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly closed its 35-lawyer office in Palo Alto last week, with star intellectual ...

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker is beefing up its newly acquired San Diego office with the addition of Carl Sanchez, for...

Attorney Stephen Joseph became fodder for the national news media after filing a lawsuit that claimed one of America's favorit...

Column - Marketing - By Andrea W. Snedeker - For some, the notion of setting goals conjures up images of footsteps in the sand...

Driving up to the Century Plaza Hotel and Spa on May 14 for the Constitutional Rights Foundation's annual Spring Dinner, the S...

A wild and woolly product liability case in Santa Barbara that ended in April with a defense verdict has stirred up accusation...

The California Bankruptcy Forum honored 17 judges at its annual conference held in Rancho Mirage May 16-18. The U.S. Bankruptc...

In December, an Australian court ruled that a local businessman could sue U.S.-based publisher Dow Jones & Co. in Australi...

Column - Intellectual Property - By Reese Pecot - Changes are afoot for trademark practitioners. On Nov. 2, the U.S. Patent &a...

The saga continues for a San Jose couple that wanted to get a good deal on a car four years ago. In 1999, Trini and Ramon Chav...

LOS ANGELES - Tough guys don't cry. Though Albert Joseph Garcia promotes a tough-guy image, he doesn't quite fit the adage. Th...

A Los Angeles-based film company won a five-year legal battle over rights to Soviet-era animated films produced before the fal...

For Matt Kirmayer, it was all about location. "For what I do, San Francisco is the center of the world," says Kirmayer, a corp...

The nation's largest online real estate advertising service is challenging the constitutionality of California regulations tha...

A $132 million jury verdict was music to the ears of independent record company TVT Records. TVT won its legal battle against ...

World Savings Bank has defeated all claims in a suit brought by a homeowner who purchased one of its properties. Los Angeles S...